Piper makes her daddy proud!

Tim is originally from Wisconsin and since that is the case, we have a couple of cheese heads floating around the house.  Kaden brought out this child sized one for Piper to try on the other day........as with most things, except having the nasal aspirator used on her nose, she is all smiles!  

Fun with dress up!

The kids have recently been reminded and discovered dress up clothes, so each day they (the 3 older ones) have been putting on Kaden's old kangaroo costume, a dinosaur costume, a fairy princess costume and a tutu.  They all take turns putting on the different costumes!

Piper is crawling and getting teeth!

Piper is my chunky little girl!  She barely started crawling like 2 weeks ago and each day she gets faster and faster!  Now this week she has 2 bottom teeth that are starting to break through!  She is always smiley, loves the other 3 kids and her daddy!

Cute picture of Mia and Francis.

I found this on Karianne's facebook page and hope she doesn't mind me stealing it. This was when Mia was saying goodbye to the kids at Amani. She hugged Francis and he kissed her. I thought it was adorable.

Happy Birthday Kaden

Kaden turned 3 this weekend, we had a small party for him which he had a ton of fun at but the pinnacle of his weekend was getting a drum set!  He has been making up his own drumset with different things at home for weeks now so when he got a drumset that was just his size, he was ecstatic!  Most of the time someone said happy birthday to Kaden, he said happy birthday back.....we are still working on that one!  Tim and I really enjoyed this weekend celebrating Kaden's birthday because its the first birthday that he has really been excited about so we enjoyed watching him have a great time!

Yet more pictures of California . . .

The family at Randy's donuts.  Or as the kids call it, 

the big donut.  Kade said he was going to try

to eat the donut on the roof.

The kids on one of the many niche fountains

at Greystone mansion.

Leala in a stone archway at Greystone mansion.

Tim and the kids by the fountain

in the driveway courtyard at

Greystone mansion

Contemplative Mia.

Leala and Pipes.

More pictures from California

These pictures are from the beach in Malibu, it was a grey day but the temperature was very pleasant.  This was Mia, Joey and Piper's first time to the beach!  Piper was in a pea pod which was great so that she could play and sleep in there without getting sand all over her.

The other pictures are from Greystone mansion in Beverly Hills!